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A relatively moderate trans medicalist perspective as you described would be just as vilified by either side.
I am a transmedicalist. Unfortunately, if you ask me to choose between the virulent insane pro-trans group and the virulent insane anti-trans group, I’m going to pick the virulent insane anti-trans group, because that at least returns us to a more coherent system of social organisation. Anything to avoid the mangling of language, and generating the group of acquaintances I have with neopronouns and genders listed as anything from “genderfluid” to “centipede”. (I also happen to really hate the weird contracted cutesy names people of this persuasion tend to pick for themselves. It sounds extraordinarily fake and performative.)
Which is really unfortunate, because I think the actual medical condition extreme-distress-with-birth-body people do exist, and we should be sympathetic and accommodative towards them (within reasonable limits, and assuming that they are also reasonable and accommodative towards society).
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1yr ago
Perhaps, but you can argue that gender stereotypes are simply how the innate characteristics of men and women exhibit themselves within a culture. This is unlikely to be entirely true, but also unlikely to be entirely false.
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1yr ago
Yes, but the idea is that this is at least a falsifiable hypothesis.
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1yr ago
You may want to find a better source than the literal CCP propaganda mouthpiece.
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1yr ago
I am skeptical anything like all women agree with you. I can't speak to the concern directly but I'm a cis man and don't think of a term like "people with prostates" as disrespectful at all.
Speaking for myself, if someone calls me “person with a prostate” I will be at best very weirded out and would probably try to find the quickest way to get the fuck away from that person.
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1yr ago
It's a weird thing noticed in a lot of newer fiction. Villains, even of the no redeeming qualities and reveling in their villainy variety, are not allowed to violate certain modern social taboos. To depict the bad thing, even as a negative example, is usually not allowed or contemplated (sometimes out of a "don't cause emotional harm to audience who can be affected by this" desire).
I don’t think that’s difficult to understand. Putting it out there and arguing against it (implicitly by associating with villainy) shows that the perspective can be contested. Better to remove the logical syntax from the zeitgeist so that it can’t even be thought.
Of course, I don’t think it’s particularly effective in this case…
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1yr ago
Are gang hand signs even a real thing?
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1yr ago
/r/AskHistorians is probably a case where draconian moderation improves the quality of the subreddit.
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1yr ago
I'm one of the few (women as well) who don't think Holmes and Irene Adler were a romantic pairing. Holmes was not in love with Irene, Irene was not in love with Holmes, Geoffrey Norton was not an abusive husband.
I’m baffled that this is a rare take. Thinking about it, I also really disliked how the BBC show treated Adler…
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1yr ago
In which country are you more likely to actually be arrested (or at least have the police show up) for posting in contradiction of state mandated beliefs
——— This is definitely, definitely China. It is difficult for me to express the absolute incredulity I have for people seriously comparing Western states to the PRC.
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1yr ago
Is that how it works? That’s a bit sad.
I guess maybe Precure is different?
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1yr ago
I, for some reason, tend to relate to female characters more than male characters. Kusanagi Motoko is legitimately just badass, Youko from Twelve Kingdoms is a relatable character with kingship thrust upon her, the lead women in Dreams of the Red Chamber outshine the ostensible protagonist of the novel. I could go on.
They’re just not recent Anglosphere works.
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1yr ago
The Trung sisters are national heroes of Vietnam, too. Doubtless we can find more of these if we even looked in a cursory manner.
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1yr ago
I went to Japan a few years back and would’ve thought 2.3% to be an overestimate! I was in a road trip around Kyushu at the time. Before that I’ve gone to Hokkaido and around Honshu as well, and my impression is that 2.3% is probably too high for most prefectures.
Were you in Tokyo (+ surrounding cities) or Kyoto perchance?
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1yr ago
The only "offence" that I have seen is someone taking a surreptitious drink of water on a hot day, since eating and drinking anything is banned on the metro or in the paid areas of metro stations.
The worst “offence” that I’ve witnessed on the MTR (back when I was still in Hong Kong) were obvious mainlanders taking a leak in a carriage, though it was pretty rare, and I think incidents of that sort have dropped off a fair bit with mainland Chinese visitors developing more of a modern city culture. I haven’t been back since before covid, though.
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1yr ago
This just all sounds so bizarre, working as a medical professional outside the US.
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1yr ago
I think the point is that for a lot of people, women includes, crying is not a matter of volition.
A man can simply say "I'm sorry you feel that way" and walk away (doing this as a woman is socially impossible)
This would incur pretty serious social sanction in my *own social environment.
but the reality is that the women I'm talking about deploy tears much less frequently on men than women
This I can believe, for a multitude of reasons, though I myself don’t have a good gauge of how much women cry towards each sex.
Edit:a word
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1yr ago
Razib Khan on his blog has talked about how hyper woke academics will say horrible things about Asians in private.
Could you provide examples? (I tried digging it up quickly but wasn’t sure what to look for.)
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1yr ago
I assume it must be. Wasn’t the 90s when the science wars took place?
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1yr ago
Reality doesn't need to sound plausible to be true, but it usually does end up making sense once you understand the driving mechanisms.
Except quantum physics, or so I am told!
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1yr ago
I think it was a genuine response to (what was seen as) a well-done parody.
This might be an incomplete solution, or at least complete only to the extent that the education or self-selection of gender-specialist psychiatrists aren’t actively trying to wave as many through as possible. But it’s still better than self-ID.
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